Notes
[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]
[Sunday 29 August 2004 - Saturday 4 September 2004]
Sunday 29 August 2004
Monday 30 August 2004
Tuesday 31 August 2004
Wednesday 1 September 2004
Thursday 2 September 2004
Friday 3 September 2004
Every explanation is a process (dreamline). The description of a
process may have different levels of detail, the most detailed being
an ordered series of steps drawn from the ℵ0 quanta of action.
Saturday 4 September 2004
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Further reading
Books
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| Bauer
, Walter, Orhtodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, Sigler Press 1996 'This brilliant and pioneering monograph inaugurated a new era of scholarship in the study of the New Testament and Christian origins, especially in America. It argued that early Christianity did not begin with a unified orthodox belief, from which heresies broke off at a later time. Rather, Bauer demonstrated that diversity stood at the beginning, while an orthodox church emerged only after long controversies during the early centuries. During recent decades, the investigation of newly discovered texts, such as the Gnostic Library of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, have fully confirmed Bauer's insights.
There may be numerous details, which scholars today would see differently than Walter Bauer, whose word was first published in Germany sixty years ago. Nevertheless, Bauer's book has remained the foundation for all modern scholarship in this field, and it is must-reading for all who want to explore early Christian Communities. It is still challenging, fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking -- without any question of the truly great masterpieces of New Testament scholarship.'
Helmut Koester Professor of New Testament Studies
and Ancient Church History at Harvard Divinity School
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| Debray, Regis, God, An Itinerary, Verso 2004 Amazon Product Description
'God, who has changed the lives—and deaths—of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times over since His birth three thousand years ago. He may have kept the same name throughout, but God has been addressed in many different ways and cannot be said to have the same characteristics in the year 500 BC as in AD 400 or in the twenty-first century, nor is He the same entity in Jerusalem or Constantinople as in Rome or New York. The omnipotent and punitive God of the Hebrews is not the consoling and intimate God of the Christians, and is certainly not identical with the impersonal cosmic Energy of the New Agers.
Régis Debray's purpose in this major new book is to trace the episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival. Debray shifts the spotlight away from the theological foreground and moves it backstage to the machinery of divine production by going back, from the Law, to the Tablets themselves and by scrutinizing Heaven at its most down-to-earth. Throughout this beautifully illustrated book, he is able to focus his attention not just on what was written, but on how it was written: with what tools, on what surface, for what social purpose and in what physical environment.
Debray contends that, in order to discover how God's fire was transferred from the desert to the prairie, we ought first to bracket the philosophical questions and focus on empirical information. However, he claims that this does not lessen its significance, but rather gives new life to spiritual issues. God: An Itinerary uses the histories of the Eternal and of the West to illuminate one another and to throw light on contemporary civilization itself. 50 b/w illustrations.'
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Graham, Carol, Happiness Around the World: The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires, Oxford University Press, USA (February 8, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199549052
ISBN-13: 978-0199549054 2010 Amazon editorial review: "'n the past decade there has emerged a substantial literature on the economics of happiness. What makes people happy--earnings, health, the economic environment, the political system, neighbors, family? And what effect does happiness have on earnings, health, and the political system? A prodigious contributor to that literature is Dr. Carol Graham, who has now assembled a masterful review of the subject.'--Thomas Schelling, Nobel Laureate in Economics 2005, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, University of Maryland
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Reynolds, Vernon, and Ralph Tanner, The Biology of Religion, Longman 1983
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Zemanian, Armen H, Graphs and Networks: Transfinite and Nonstandard, Birkhäuser 2004 Amazon review: 'The book presents almost everything that has been achieved so far in the relatively new field of transfinite graphs and electrical networks. In the first two chapters, the reader is familiarized with transfinite graphs and with the symbols and notations used in the book.... The last chapter is dedicated to the approach of nonstandard analysis applied to transfinite graphs. The book must be appreciated especially because new results in the field of transfinite graphs are also included. Therefore, I find this book a welcome addition to the literature."' —Zentralblatt MATH
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Papers
| Schlesinger, William H, "Translational Ecology", Science, 329, 5992, 6 August 2010, page 609. '. . . despire producing an enormous amount of new information, ecologists are often unable to convey knowledge effectively to the public and policy-makers. Unless the discoveries of ecological science are rapidly translated into meaningful actions, they will remain quietly archived while the biolsphere degrades.'. back |
Links
| Anaxagoras - Wikipedia Anaxagoras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'Anaxagoras (Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagoras, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 BC – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese. He was accused of contravening the established religion and was forced to flee to Lampsacus.
Anaxagoras is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of Nous (mind), as an ordering force. He regarded material substance as an infinite multitude of imperishable primary elements, referring all generation and disappearance to mixture and separation respectively.' back |
| Bernard of Chartres - Wikipedia Bernard of Chartres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'Bernard of Chartres (Bernardus Carnotensis) (died after 1124) was a twelfth-century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, scholar, and administrator. back |
| Régis Debray - Wikipedia Régis Debray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'Jules Régis Debray (born 1940) is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia.' back |
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